Welcome to our journey into the world of code formatting with Prettier for UK Government NodeJS projects. As budding developers, we all know the thrill of bringing our ideas to life through code. Yet, as we dive deeper into the realms of web development, we quickly discover that writing code is just the beginning. Ensuring … Read more
Every so often I have to start up a new project. Whether that’s a brand new / greenfield starting from scratch project, or joining an existing team and cloning an existing repo, one of the very first things I want to get working is Prettier. And more times than I can count, I have been … Read more
This is a guide on getting the minimal amount of ‘things’ installed, configured, and working to kick off a project that uses Gov UK frontend components. The truth of it is, the Gov UK docs are usually very good for this sort of thing. And you probably won’t have to do this very often. If … Read more
I’m working on a UK Government project at the moment that has a lot of Cypress tests. The way they are set up is not exactly to my taste, but I mention it because it is relevant to the way the code will be structured below. However, the method I use to remove lines from … Read more
If you work on any JavaScript / Node / TypeScript GOV.UK project, sooner or later you will come across the Nunjucks template language. And depending on your prior experience, you may find the whole thing quite limiting or confusing. Personally I think it’s good at what it does. It’s not fancy like React or Vue, … Read more
I got really lucky with the fix for this one, as it had me scratching my head for a good while. The gist of this is that I had two classes – a base class, and a sub class. I wanted to call a method with the same name on the sub class as exists … Read more
Whilst updating an older Express project to use TypeScript, I came across a file where I was pulling in a JSON file directly using require. I wanted to remove the require usage and switch to import, but this was not quite as straightforward as I initially expected. It turns out that this can be demonstrated … Read more